Please use Donk's topic for questions regarding the Unlocker and this topic for questions regarding Mac OS X installation and guide update requests.

"The guide will appear here shortly, just need a little more time to iron out some of the new 'opportunities' Apple have given us with trying to install Lion".[UPDATED: 12/NOV/2011]PLEASE NOTE: Donk has released an update to his "universal unlocker" (unlock-all) which supports all current variants of VMware, i.e. ESXi 5 (including the latest patch), Workstation 8, Player 4 and Fusion 4. The latest "universal unlocker" (unlock-all) is a consolidation of Donk and Zenith432's work and provides the unlocker and scripts to stop and start relevant services as well as install the latest darwin.iso for installing VMWare Tools. The current version is "unlock-all-v101.zip".

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Posted 21 September 2011 - 06:53 PM

I have upgraded my SL installation on Vmware player 3.1.4 to Lion on Workstation 8 successfully. I am using W7 x64 Ultimate as host.

Steps I followed:1. I booted into Snow Leopard VM2. Uninstalled VMsvga2_v1.2.3 and EnsoniqAudioPCI_v1.0.3 using uninstall.sh from http://sourceforge.n.../vmsvga2/files/3. Reboot the VM4. Reinstalled Vmware tools from Fusion 4.0.1 (available in Donk's unlocker)5. Shutdown the VM6. Uninstalled Vmware player 3.1.47. Reboot the host OS8. Installed workstation 89. Unlocked it using Donk's unlocker10. Upgraded the OS X SL VM to Version: Workstation 8.0 virtual machine after opening it in Vmware workstation11. Increased RAM of the VM to 2GB (originally I was using 1GB on SL)12. Boot the VM13. I mounted the OS X Lion install dmg and started the upgrade14. It took about 20 minutes "Installing and downloading additional components"15. It rebooted the VM and continued with the installation - another 20 to 30 minutes16. After finishing it booted into Lion successfully17. I reinstalled vmware tools18. I installed update 10.7.1

I will install the new guestd_patches and Lion EnsoniqAudioPCI files then this will be a very smooth transition.

Posted 22 September 2011 - 04:11 PM

You don't need to do that. Just set 'sound.virtualDev = "hdaudio"' in the VMX file and Lion has a native HDA kext that will give you sound.

Zenith,

Thanks for the update, if you add a Sound Card in your Virtual Machine Hardware Settings it should add the "sound.virtualDev" line to your vmx by default, but always wise to check if you are having audio issues.

Posted 22 September 2011 - 08:36 PM

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@ MSoK

Still waiting for your guides however in the meanwhile i tried to boot from 10.6 SL dmg file after i applied your patch to a fresh installed Vmware 8. However it stucks right after the first gray screen.

Could you at least give some hints till your guide is ready ?

Hope it'll be ready soon btw...

PS: I need to reinstall my SL cuz my Vmware 7 SL VM do not boot under 8 with your patch... I plan to do a new installation and attach my old virtual hdd to the new one and recover my files from there...

Posted 23 September 2011 - 09:47 AM

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That's for new virtual machines/new sound card. Some people have VMs from like... years back

Zenith,

I had forgotten, sorry, I generally start again when I change machines or go to a major software release like Workstation 8, but I understand that is not an option for all, thanks for the reality check.

Posted 24 September 2011 - 09:56 AM

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I'm stuck at the Apple logo too.

This is what I've done:
1) Installed VMware Workstation 8 on Windows 7 x86_64
2) Applied Donks VMware patch linked at the top of this thread.
3) Created an ISO file out of the original InstallESD.dmg
4) Created a new VM using "OS X 10.7" type, default hardware, CD/DVD changed to SCSI 1:0, using the ISO created in the previous step
5) Booted the VM - stuck at the Apple logo

I also tried to disable the SMC by setting smc.isPresent to "false" in the VMX, but no luck.

Posted 24 September 2011 - 04:35 PM

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I'm stuck at the Apple logo too.

This is what I've done:1) Installed VMware Workstation 8 on Windows 7 x86_642) Applied Donks VMware patch linked at the top of this thread.3) Created an ISO file out of the original InstallESD.dmg4) Created a new VM using "OS X 10.7" type, default hardware, CD/DVD changed to SCSI 1:0, using the ISO created in the previous step5) Booted the VM - stuck at the Apple logo

I also tried to disable the SMC by setting smc.isPresent to "false" in the VMX, but no luck.

br pmf

ok everbody！！！！ i have the same issues for few days，but now i just beat it！

the donks unlocker have some errors ！NONE PATCHED THE X64 FILESyou need go to the “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\x64\”and patch the 3 files by yourself！

Part of the problem is people are just running the install.cmd directly. I did say to open a command prompt (cmd.exe) first with admin privileges. However I will change the code to run by clicking on it.